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    The Girls

    Mai Zetterling 1968 Sweden Fiction b/w 100min Swedish DCP
    Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of "Lysistrata," Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. As they re-assess and deal with the problems in their respective private lives, they recognize the parallels with the play and begin to realize that it is serious (even tragic) after all. The Girls is actress Mai Zetterling’s fourth feature film as director and is a key work in feminist cinema, presenting the eccentric, often funny and very positive way the three women’s minds work.

    Director

    Mai Zetterling

    Mai ZETTERLING is Swedish director and actress. It was in SJÖBERG's Torment (1944) with its screenplay by Ingmar BERGMAN that she achieved her acting breakthrough before she was offered lm parts in the UK and began her international acting and directing career. With her remarkable second career in directing, she was one of the few female directors in the 1960s and 70s. She often served as creative producer for her own lms and wrote her own screenplays. Most of them dealt explicitly with female sexuality and focused on the role of women in society.

    Mai Zetterling

    1990 Love at First Sight. Sunday Pursuit

    1986 Betongmormor

    1986 Amorosa

    1982 Love

    1982 Scrubbers

    1981 Of Seals and Men

    1978 Stockholm

    1977 Månen är en grön ost

    1975 We Have Many Names

    1973 Visions of Eight

    1968 The Girls

    1968 Dr. Glas

    1966 Night Games

    1966 Testfilm Mai Zetterling Island

    1964 Loving Couples

    1962 The War Game

    Director: Mai Zetterling

    Writers: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes

    Producer: Göran Lindgren

    Music: Michael Hurd

    Cinematography: Rune Ericson

    Film Editing: Wic Kjellin

    Production Design: Charles Delattre

    Costume Design: Ulla-Britt Söderlund

    Swedish Film Institute

    filmloans@filminstitutet.se

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